TRENTON – A city man shot last month at the Kingsbury Towers died last week, becoming Trenton’s 13th homicide of the year.
Terrence Horton was one of two men wounded April 14 around 6 p.m. at the Trenton high-rise. The second victim survived being shot in the foot.
At the time, it was the city’s seventh shooting in nine days.
Horton died May 21, and his death was ruled a homicide, said Casey DeBlasio, a spokeswoman from the Mercer County Prosecutor’s Office.
People left condolences on Horton’s Facebook page. He was described as an affable man, known by the nicknames “Chip” and “Longshoes,” who enjoyed cooking and having fun.
A friend recalled Horton crashing her mother’s wedding.
“I’m going to miss the days of you chasing my car down & jumping in the passenger side, cracking up and asking, ‘Little sis, where are we going ?” another person wrote on his Facebook page. “You didn’t even care about the destination, but then you always had me drop you off somewhere else.You weren’t even going anywhere. You just made up somewhere to go b/c you seen a car. I love your crazy @$$. Maaaaan!”
No arrests have been made in Horton’s slaying.
Police sources said at the time four possible suspects, described as black men, had been parked at the front of the Mercer County courthouse and fled down Route 29 following the shooting.
Horton’s death is the latest in a deadly stretch for the capital city.
An activist warned Trenton could experience historic bloodshed after twice being rocked by serial spams of gunplay since Gov. Phil Murphy put the state on lockdown.
Three people were killed on separate weekends, the first in April.
Mayor Reed Gusciora instituted a curfew following the first bloody weekend. Since then, the curfew has been relaxed to 9 p.m.
The violence has continued, as Trenton had five murders in a week.
Watson Cogdell, 58, became the 12th homicide of the year after he was gunned down over Memorial Day weekend, in area of Sanford and Brunswick avenues.
Before that, on Thursday, 19-year-old Raheen McKinnon, of Hamilton, was fatally felled On the 900 block of Parkside Avenue in the West Ward, and a 17-year-old Trenton boy was shot in the neck during the drive-by.
The violent stretch started with the slaying of Robert Smith, 38, who cut down on Daymond Street the night of May 16, when someone shot into a large group gathered in the neighborhood.
Two other men, former Bloods gangster Earlie Harrell and a 19-year-old Hamilton man, were also wounded in the triple shooting.
Then two men were killed within hours of each other Monday, first 18-year-old Tayvion Jones and then 44-year-old Antwuan Bowens. Bowens was killed in the same neighborhood as Smith.
Arrests have not been announced in either the Smith or Bowens’ cases.
Horace Jones, Tayvion’s cousin, was quickly nabbed after the murder, fueled by a spat over women, police sources said.
Also, just over the bridge in Bucks County, authorities reported that a Trenton man was shot Saturday night outside of a Pennsylvania hotel had succumbed to his wounds.
Davon Frink, 25, was was one of several Trenton residents who rented rooms at the Holiday Inn Express on Cabot Boulevard, authorities told NJ Advance Media.
Frink was found in the parking lot with gunshot wounds to his face and neck and died at a hospital, authorities said.
